For years, the social network has allowed people to “memorialize” the profiles of dead family and friends, which locks down those accounts. But previously, Facebook restricted the visibility of memorialized accounts to friends only. Even if the deceased had public posts and images on their profile, people could no longer find the account in search results or see any of its content, unless they had been Facebook friends with the person before he or she passed away.

Going forward, Facebook will maintain the visibility of a person’s content and account as it had been set up by that user. If there were public profiles or posts, they’ll remain public—allowing Facebook to serve as a public memorial site to people who wanted to share publicly.

“We are respecting the choices a person made in life while giving their extended community of family and friends ongoing visibility to the same content they could always see,” Facebook executives Chris Price and Alex DiScalfani wrote in a blog post.

In their post, Facebook’s Price and DiScalfani suggested there was more to come. “We will have more to share in the coming months as we continue to think through how best to help people decide how they want to be remembered and what they want to leave behind for loved ones,” they wrote.